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November 2, 2009 – Alaska Native leader Byron Mallott talks about the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and the Native corporations founded under the act. Mr. Mallott is speaking from the board room of the Sealaska building in downtown Juneau, Alaska. NativeCo.com is proud to have Mr. Mallott on our Board of Advisors.

This lecture is part of a series of talks sponsored by Sealaska Heritage Institute to celebration Native Awareness Month. Video is provided courtesy of Kathy Dye and the Sealaska Heritage Institue.

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From local news in Anchorage, Alaska to “Roll Call” in Washington D.C., the media is talking about the upcoming Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight. Tex Hall writes “McCaskill Hearing an Opportunity to Educate on American History” on Roll Call. Also, an interesting Editorial by Washington Technology.

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The Bristol Bay Native Corporation remains “proactively neutral” about the Pebble Project. The report below implies BBNC is putting a halt to the road building ambitions of the Pebble Project when in reality BBNC continues to remain neutral.

The following story is based on a radio interview in which Jason Metrokin, President & CEO of BBNC states, “While we’re continuing to find out more about the project, we’re continuing to do our fact finding… We realized that one of the major components of this project that we actually have control over is the subsurface acreage to the potential road corridor between the mine site and the port site. A large portion of that road actually covers Native corporation grounds.” Listen to the full story from Dillingham’s KDLG radio station by clicking here.